Religious fervor makes the devil a very real personage, and anything awe-inspiring or not easily understood is usually connected w...ith him. Perhaps this explains why, not only in the Ozarks but all over the State, his name crops up so frequently.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned a...nd disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments suited to her sex. And when this is attained, there will be few or none who wish to enter the professions of men or take charge of civil government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything... can be explained by everything else.... For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban strang...er to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected tog...ether and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The acceptance of a theory as true does involve a personal choice in a way that a law does not. Different people do differ about t...heories; they can choose whether or no they will believe them; but people do not differ about laws; there is no personal choice; universal agreement can be forced. Again, if we look at the history of science, we shall find that the great advances in theory are more closely connected with the names of the great men than are the advances in law. Every important theory is associated with some man whose scientific work was notable apart from that theory; either he invented other important theories or in some way he did scientific work greatly above the average. On the other hand there are a good many well-known laws which are associated with the names of men who, apart from those particular laws, are practically unknown; they discovered one important law, but they have no claim to rank among the geniuses of science. That fact seems to indicate that a greater degree of genius is needed to invent true theories than to discover true laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enoug...h how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons--reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take thi...s examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »